Lantern-reflector.



0. A. PRUNNER.

LANTERN REFLECTOR. APPLICATION FILED MAY 1, 1906.

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O. A. PRUNNER,

LANTERN REFLECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 1, 190a.

Patented Aug. 17, 1909.

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OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

LANTERN-REFLECTOR.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OSCAR A. PRUNNER, a citizen of the United States of America, re-

siding at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain attachment of the clip, Fig. 3 is an elevation of the portion shown in Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the reflector and clip, as secured to the dash board.

Lantern reflectors of the type above referred to are usuallyformed of sheet metal, such as tin, and are provided with spring clips for attachment to the vehicle dash or other support. Heretofore these clips have been attached directly to the sheet metal by soldering or other securing means, and experience has demonstrated that this point of attachment is the weak part of the structure. Thus, in the frequent use of the clip, the stress upon the sheet metal at the point of attachment will cause it to break. To overcome this defect, I have devised a construction of clip, which is indirectly attached to the sheet metal by being anchored to the binding wire at the edge of the reflector. As shown, A is the sheet metal reflector, the opposite edges of which are bound by the wire B.

O is the clip for attaching the reflector to a vehicle dash F or other suitable support, and is provided with a U-shaped portion terminating in its opposite end inthe spring coils I). These coils are anchored to the wire B first by being arranged so that when the clip is under tension the coils will bear against the wire B Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 1, 1906.

Patented Aug. 17, 1909.

Serial No. 31%,728.

and transmit the stress thereto instead of directly to the sheet metal, and second, by formin the end of the coil D into an eye E which is bent about the wire B. VWhen thus constructed the stress produced by the tensioning of the clip is transmitted first to the wire B and from the latter is distributed to the sheet metal.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. The combination with a support, of a reflector having a wire bound edge, a clip for securing said reflector to said support attached at its ends directly to the binding wire and also having a bearing intermediate its ends upon said binding wire.

2. The combination with a support, of a reflector having a wire bound edge, a clip attached thereto for securing said reflector to said support formed with a spring coil arranged opposite the wire bound edge, and directly bearing thereupon.

8. The combination with a support, of a reflector having a wire bound edge, a clip for securing said reflector to said support formed with a spring coil arranged opposite the wire bound edge and bearing thereagainst, the end of said coil being bent to embrace the binding wire.

4. The combination with a support, of a reflector having a wire bound edge, a clip attached thereto for securing said reflector to said support formed with a spring coil arranged opposite the wire bound edge on the inside of said reflector and directly bearing against the wire bound edge.

5. The combination with a support, of a reflector having a wire bound edge, a clip for securing said reflector to said support formed with a spring coil arranged opposite the wire bound edge on the inside of said reflector and bearing directly against the wire bound edge, the end of said coil being bent to embrace the binding wire.

6. The combination with a reflector having a wire bound edge, of a supporting clip secured thereto by a portion embracing the wire of the edge which transmits tension stresses directly thereinto, said. clip having another portion bearing upon the wire of with bearings upon said edge wires for transsaid edge for transmitting thereinto colnpres- Initting thereinto compression stresses. slon stresses. In testlrnony whereof I affix my signature 7. The combination with a reflector havin presence of two witnesses. ing opposite wire bound edges, of a support- I OSCAR ALLEN PRUNNER.

mg clip having its ends embracing the wires Witnesses: of the opposite edges to transmit tenslon JNO. F. BREEN, stresses dlrectly therelnto and also provided GEO. W. LYNCH. 

